¹Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

¹Mimi Paulo, mtume wa Kristo Yesu kwa mapenzi ya Mungu, na ndugu Timotheo, tunawaandikia ninyi mlio kanisa la Mungu huko Korintho, na watu wote wa Mungu kila mahali katika Akaya.

²Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

²Tunawatakieni neema na amani kutoka kwa Mungu Baba yetu na Bwana Yesu Kristo.

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

³Atukuzwe Mungu na Baba wa Bwana wetu Yesu Kristo, Baba mwenye huruma na Mungu mwenye kuleta faraja yote.

⁴who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

⁴Yeye hutufariji sisi katika taabu zetu zote, ili nasi tupate kuwafariji wengine katika kila taabu kwa faraja hiyohiyo tunayopokea kutoka kwa Mungu.

⁵For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

⁵Naam, kadiri mateso ya Kristo yanavyozidi ndani yetu, ni kadiri hiyohiyo tunazidi kufarijiwa naye.

⁶But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

⁶Ikiwa tunapata taabu, basi ni kwa ajili ya faraja na wokovu wenu. Tukifarijika, ni kwa ajili ya kuwafariji ninyi na kuwaunga mkono mpate nguvu ya kustahimili mateso yaleyale tunayoteseka sisi.

⁷Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.

⁷Tena, matumaini tuliyo nayo kwa ajili yenu ni imara; tunajua kwamba mkishiriki mateso yetu, mtashiriki pia faraja yetu.

⁸For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

⁸Ndugu, tunataka kuwajulisheni taabu zilizotupata kule Asia; taabu hizo zilitulemea kupita kiasi, hata tukakata matumaini yote ya kuendelea kuishi.

⁹Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

⁹Naam, tulikuwa kama watu waliohukumiwa kuuawa, ili tufundishwe kumtegemea Mungu mwenye kuwafufua wafu, badala ya kutegemea nguvu zetu sisi wenyewe.

¹⁰who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

¹⁰Yeye alituokoa katika hatari kubwa ya kifo, na anaendelea kutuokoa; sisi tumemwekea tumaini letu kwamba atatuokoa tena,

¹¹you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed on us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.

¹¹ninyi mkiwa mnatuunga mkono kwa kutuombea. Hivyo neema tutakazokuwa tumepata kutokana na maombi ya watu wengi hivyo, ziwe sababu ya watu wengi zaidi kumshukuru Mungu kwa ajili yetu.

¹²For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

¹²Sisi tunajivunia kitu kimoja: dhamiri yetu inatuhakikishia kwamba tumeishi ulimwenguni hapa, na hasa kati yenu, kwa unyenyekevu na unyofu tuliojaliwa na Mungu; hatukuongozwa na hekima ya kibinadamu bali neema ya Mungu.

¹³For we write no other things to you, than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end;

¹³Tunawaandikia ninyi mambo mnayoweza kuyasoma na kuyaelewa. Ninatumaini kwamba mtaelewa vizuri kabisa,

¹⁴as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

¹⁴maana mpaka sasa mmenielewa kiasi fulani tu. Tunajua kwamba katika ile Siku ya Bwana Yesu mtaweza kutuonea sisi fahari kama nasi tunavyowaonea ninyi fahari.

¹⁵In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;

¹⁵Nikiwa na matumaini hayo, nilikusudia kuja kwenu hapo awali ili mpate baraka maradufu.

¹⁶and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.

¹⁶Nilikusudia kupita kwenu nikiwa safarini kwenda Makedonia, na wakati wa kurudi pia, ili nipate msaada wenu kwa safari yangu kwenda Yudea.

¹⁷When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”

¹⁷Je, mnadhani nilipopanga hivyo nimekuwa kama mtu asiye na msimamo? Je, mnadhani kwamba ninafanya uamuzi wangu kwa fikira za kibinadamu na kwamba nasema "Ndiyo" na "Siyo" papo hapo?

¹⁸But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”

¹⁸Mungu ni ukweli mtupu; basi, kile tulichowaambia ninyi si jambo la "Ndiyo" na "Siyo".

¹⁹For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”

¹⁹Maana Kristo Yesu, Mwana wa Mungu, ambaye mimi, Silwano na Timotheo, tulimhubiri kwenu, hakuwa mtu wa "Ndiyo" na "Siyo"; bali yeye daima ni "Ndiyo" ya Mungu.

²⁰For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen,” to the glory of God through us.

²⁰Maana ndani yake ahadi zote za Mungu zimekuwa "Ndiyo". Kwa sababu hiyo, "Amina" yetu husemwa kwa njia ya Kristo kwa ajili ya kumtukuza Mungu.

²¹Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;

²¹Mungu mwenyewe ndiye mwenye kutuimarisha sisi na ninyi pia katika Kristo, na ndiye anayetuweka wakfu;

²²who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

²²ndiye aliyetutia mhuri wa kuwa mali yake yeye na kutujalia Roho mioyoni mwetu kama dhamana ya mambo yote ambayo ametuwekea.

²³But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

²³Mungu ndiye shahidi wangu--yeye anajua moyo wangu! Mimi sikuja tena Korintho, kwa sababu tu ya kuwahurumieni.

²⁴Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

²⁴Hatutaki kutumia mabavu juu ya imani yenu; ninyi mko imara katika imani yenu. Wajibu wetu ni kufanya kazi pamoja kwa ajili ya furaha yenu.